Re: [HACKERS] Execution time.

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Shiby Thomas <sthomas(at)cise(dot)ufl(dot)edu>
Cc: "Vadim B(dot) Mikheev" <vadim(at)sable(dot)krasnoyarsk(dot)su>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Execution time.
Date: 1998-02-04 16:38:04
Message-ID: Pine.NEB.3.95.980204113746.24451W-100000@hub.org
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On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Shiby Thomas wrote:

>
> => > I invoked postmaster as:
> => > postmaster -B 30000 -o "-s -F -S 16384"
> => ^^^^^
> => 240M of shared memory ?!
> =>
> Is the size of the hash bucket dependent on the number of buffers available ?
> If so, with -B 30000, it might create huge hash buckets and hence the
> hash join could degenerate to a nested loops join. Is that possible -- just
> checking. What could be good values for -B and -S. The largest table I am
> joining is about 60M

My production server runs with a -B 256, and a -S 10240

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